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Recent Portuguese PhD student publication

The article entitled "A parte dos Críticos de 2666, de Roberto Bolaño, como análise da globalização" [The Part About the Critics, in Roberto Bolaño's 2666, as an analysis of Globalization], authored by Portuguese PhD student, Fábio Mariano, appeared in the most recent volume of the journal Revista da Associação Brasileira de Hispanistas (abehache). Congratulations to Fábio Mariano! 
Literature, Spanish, Portuguese, Romance Languages


Gabriela Werner Viera Gonçalves

Gabriela Werner is one of the new Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants (FLTA) at the University of Georgia. She holds a B. A. – Teaching License in English Language and Literature Studies from the Federal University of Technology – Paraná (UTFPR). She has been an English as a second language (ESL) and Portuguese as an additional language (PAL) teacher since 2018. Her research interests include culture studies within teaching-learning…


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Luana Santos

Luana Santos is an M.A. student at the University of Georgia. Her research interests are Brazilian music and literature. Luana also has an M.A. in education from Universidade Federal de Sergipe and has been teaching English and Portuguese as additional languages for the last nine years, in diverse settings. She likes writing poetry, singing, and practicing the acoustic guitar.


Brandon Carmona

Brandon Ponce Carmona holds a B.A. in Spanish & Portuguese from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He is currently a Master’s student at the University of Georgia, with a focus on Brazilian Popular Culture, musical analysis and Portuguese language acquisition. His research interests include the sociopolitical and cultural effects of Brazilian Funk (Funk Carioca) in Brazil, the modern expansion of the genre and lyrical analysis of Funk…


Fabio Mariano

I was born in São Paulo, Brazil, but have lived in Campinas from my first year of life until I came to UGA. I went to Unicamp, where I got my undergraduate major in Literature Studies, an MA in Literary Theory and History and started a Ph.D in Literary History and Theory right before I came here. During that time, I have also taught Portuguese Language Literature in Brazilian High School and have pursued a career in creative writing. My…

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Fulbright Assistant Brings Northwestern Brazilian Culture to UGA Students

Welcome to Victória Lane Silva! This is her first semester teaching Portuguese to UGA students as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FTLA) in the Department of Romance Languages. She shares her reflections on the importance of language learning and culture: My name is Victória Lane Silva, and I am from Salvador, Bahia — the first capital of Brazil and a study abroad destination for current UGA students who are learning Portuguese…
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Brazilian Women Poets in Translation

Cecília Paiva Ximenes Rodrigues and Cris Lira have edited a bilingual collection in Portuguese and English of Brazilian women's poetry. Raízes: Brazilian Women Poets in Translation, published by Venas Abiertas, brings together poems by forty-seven Brazilian writers of different identities and reveals the power of a new literature built from plural experiences and perspectives. The book was conceived and edited by Rodrigues and Lira, in…
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Michel Soares do Carmo

M.A. in Linguistics from the Post-Graduate Program in Letters and Linguistics and a B.A. in Languages and Literatures - Portuguese, both from the Federal University of Goiás (UFG). Specialist in Proofreading (PUC-Minas). He was Adjunct Lecturer for the Pedagogy Major at the Faculty of Education at UFG and for the Portuguese Language and History Majors at the Federal Institute of Goiás. He was a Fulbright fellow as Teaching Assistant of…


Lívia Duarte

Lívia Duarte was born and raised in Espírito Santo, Brazil. She has a B.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Espírito Santo (UFES), in Brazil. Currently a Romance Languages M.A. student at the University of Georgia. Her main research interests include fantastic literature, the construction of Brazilian national identities, and children's literature.
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